South Platte Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

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site. However, we feel up here that this study should consider downstream storage and upstream storage in this comprehensive study of the South Platte River. I think the upstream storage is.a must and also upstream flood control. After that upstream storage and flood control is accomplished on the Platte River, probably at Two Forks, some sort of control on Sand Creek, the St. Vrain and the Poudre which could be multi- purpose reservoirs, that perhaps.the need for a reservoir as large as has been designed for the Narrows is not practical or feasible. As to control of the Bijou, it appears to us that channeling the Bijou into the Narrows or the Wiggins or the Hoyt Reservoirs is only a small part of the answer there. The major part of the flood damage on the Bijou is above those points rather than below. I understand that the actual flood damage to the Platte River from the Bijou is not too great, that the main damage is silting by the Bijou. We feel that the best answer to Bijou Creek is control on the upper reaches through retarding dams, ungated retarding dams., land use, something that comes under Public Law 566 or other similar programs. In other words, we feel that this study should be a comprehensive study of the entire basin and the multi - purpose uses - flood control, irrigation benefits, municipal benefits and so on. We are somewhat apprehensive that if the Narrows site is approved by this committee, and it has already been approved as a project, that maybe the other features of this study might be neglected or dropped. We think it's essential that they be one unit, the upstream storage and downstream storage, and that that be a partici- pating project in the Missouri Basin and eligible for power revenues. I believe that's about all I have to comment at this time." MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "Thank you. Mr. Davis, you are the downstream party. Do you have anything to add ?" -10-